Just wondering if anyone knows when this strip (John Richardson’s first comics work) appeared? Richardson says it was his first comics work and was published in Bunty, with the second being Mean Arena in 2000AD Prog 178 (September 1980).

I’ve checked through Bunty 1978-1980 in the BL but can’t find it… would love to add a date to it...

Richardson was a stand-in artist in Eva’s Evil Eye in Tammy too. The regular one must have gotten sick or something.Plot: Eva Lee pretends to have the evil eye to scare off the bullies who persecute her for being a gypsy. But things get out of hand, of course.

Richardson also drew two serials and some complete stories for “Scream!”.

Learning to draw convincingly? Becoming a stay-at-home dad? Emigrating to Australia? Living at Her Majesty's Pleasure? In the great scheme of things, does it really matter?

It doesn't really matter but I'd love to know as well, purely curiosity.......it's a big gap!

I agree with you Adam. It's all too easy to think of people as "just" a comic artist or writer. And the more I find out about each contributor, the more fascinating it is. A great example is one of the first years that Ron Smith worked at D C Thomson's he decided to bring in a Christmas bottle for his studio companions. That was one Friday afternoon where very little was done in the Fun Factory! Needless to say, Ron was left under no illusion of how his generosity was viewed by the management the following Monday!

_________________I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!

A great example is one of the first years that Ron Smith worked at D C Thomson's he decided to bring in a Christmas bottle for his studio companions. That was one Friday afternoon where very little was done in the Fun Factory! Needless to say, Ron was left under no illusion of how his generosity was viewed by the management the following Monday!

Serves him right. He should have brought in half a dozen more bottles for the bosses. Lack of forethought or the fabled Scottish meanness? Where lies the blame?

A great example is one of the first years that Ron Smith worked at D C Thomson's he decided to bring in a Christmas bottle for his studio companions. That was one Friday afternoon where very little was done in the Fun Factory! Needless to say, Ron was left under no illusion of how his generosity was viewed by the management the following Monday!

Serves him right. He should have brought in half a dozen more bottles for the bosses. Lack of forethought or the fabled Scottish meanness? Where lies the blame?

That would display such a lack of organisational ability. A couple of presents fewer here and a couple fewer there will not be missed because the children and their friends would never know that money that might have been spent on them had been diverted into a good few bottles of wine, whiskey and rum for Mum, Dad, Uncle Jimmy and Auntie Freda, and all their work colleagues. Anyone for a knees-up?

I have a Sunday Telegraph magazine from around the late sixties with a cover article on DC Thomson. The company came across as very secretive with no phones on desks, you had to use a pay phone in a corridor.

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